I was a bit disappointed that subsequent DCEU films have been less sci-fi than Man of Steel (although in the case of Wonder Woman, good call) because I also enjoyed that and think that there’s a lot of potential in the the sci-fi vein.

On the topic of redundancy, I can already see how the ‘walk the plank bridge’ that leads out of the dome is like Smallville’s barn-loft, a place where the main character goes to think and have intimate conversations with people. I wonder how much they’ll follow the model here.

I haven’t watched this episode yet, but by reason Krypton is worth saving, do you mean to say that the society is [bad] enough that it’s not worth saving, kind of like the Batman Begins question on Gotham?

There’s almost no way that a film can possibly live up to the title Antlers, but I’ll have to give it a shot, just to be sure.

That’s why Turok was such a great game. The N64 double the saurian factor.

This isn’t a great photo, but...

I haven’t watched this episode yet, but considering Obama’s reputation as someone who enjoys sci-fi, I’d think that it make sense for him to show up for the adventure itself, not necessarily as a political statement.

I found it strange in a vaguely sad way, although...I can’t recall how it ends. Maybe the ending is uplifting.

I’m a weirdo who hasn’t read the book yet holds some fondness for the 2003 TV adaption. I’m sure that it fails a lot visually, even beyond the Most Disturbing Centaur effect, but I really enjoy the characterizations. Reading reviews of the new version, it sounds as though it doesn’t even capture the characters as…

Horse movies seem to almost always trade in sadness.

I’m just upset that the Tolkien estate won’t let him go by his real name, Shazamdalf.

It’s possible that Trevorrow’s creative difference with Lucasfilm did have something to do with The Last Jedi and its implications for the next film, as well as the monkey-wrench thrown by Carrie Fisher’s death.

Ah, “breathy” is the word I was looking for but couldn’t find.

It helps that it’s wordless, just orchestral and relies on our familiarity with the melody.

I don’t think that there’s any other show or film that I have more non-viewer nostalgia for simply because I saw a lot of posters and marketing at the time. This takes me back even though I never watched an episode during its original run.

From what I understand, though, the First Order didn’t really rise until decades after the end of the original trilogy. There was a lot of peaceful downtime and she didn’t establish the Resistance until relatively soon before these new films.

Honestly, a full-dark Luke would have bothered me a lot less than the apathetic version that we got. It could have played as an entertaining elseworlds exercise in my mind. TLJ played for me like a mirror universe trying to pass itself off as the ‘prime’; I’d have preferred it drop the pretense and just go crazy.

Yeah, it’s striking just how much she’s been front and center since back when she was the bright spot in BvS, and of course since her own film.

Hey, I get where you’re coming from—I reckon TLJ and BvS fairly similar in a lot of ways, and I dislike both of them, in spite of their mainstream reputations differing—but I’m not sure that getting ‘dragged through the mud’ or being told that one has to like TLJ are accurate takeaways.

It probably went extinct when commentary tracks themselves became an endangered species (sadly).